According to the lead researcher, “We need these drugs to prevent or treat future viral outbreaks.”
A research team at the University of Alberta has discovered a new class of drugs with the potential to prevent or treat infections in a future viral outbreak.
In the paper, published in the journal Nature, the team reports that earlier research that showed how HIV has evolved to activate the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in cells as a way to stop the body from producing peroxisomes, which trigger interferon production. The researchers thought SARS-CoV-2, another DOI: 10.1038/s44298-024-00018-4